Frankly speaking, it is difficult to trust the Chinese.Once bitten bya snake, you feel suspicious even when you see a piece of rope.

-Dalai Lama originally Tenzin Gyatso
  Quoted in the Observer Colour Magazine, 5  Apr.

Der Mensch ist ein Seil, geknu«  pft zwischenTier und « Ubermensch,öein Seil u«  ber einem Abgrunde. Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Supermanöa rope over an abyss.

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
^92  Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra), prologue, section 4 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Of Cecil Rhodes. Following the Equator, ch.2.

Thurber did not write the waya surgeon operates, he wrotethewayachildskipsrope,thewayamousewaltzes.

-White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
  In the NewYorker,11 Nov.Tribute toJamesThurber.